Phoenix10
In the Brooder
Hi all. I've been a chicken keeper for about 10 months. I have a small flock of chooks: 2 Hylines (10 months old) 1 Australorpe (5 months old) 1 Buff Sussex (5 weeks old) 1 Plymouth Rock (5 weeks old).
Just this morning, we found our Light Sussex (unknown age, but around 15weeks old) dead in the coop. We're pretty sure she's been ill since we got her, but even after a course of antibiotics she never did recover.
We live in the suburbs of Melbourne, where we are only allowed 5 hens (no Roos).
We've been through a lot in the past 10 months. One chick died of Marek's disease, one chick ended up being a roo and so she had to go back to the farm, one chicken (bought as a pullet) died the day after we brought her home (also sick).
We've learned which farms to buy healthy chooks from now. The chooks we've raised from one to five days old are still alive, healthy and happy.
We've enforced 'chicken jail' on one of our Hylines who was bullying our Australorpe and Light Sussex and things have quietened down in the run.
I look forward to asking questions and sharing photos and our (limited) experience with raising chickens.
Cheers
Phoenix10
Just this morning, we found our Light Sussex (unknown age, but around 15weeks old) dead in the coop. We're pretty sure she's been ill since we got her, but even after a course of antibiotics she never did recover.
We live in the suburbs of Melbourne, where we are only allowed 5 hens (no Roos).
We've been through a lot in the past 10 months. One chick died of Marek's disease, one chick ended up being a roo and so she had to go back to the farm, one chicken (bought as a pullet) died the day after we brought her home (also sick).
We've learned which farms to buy healthy chooks from now. The chooks we've raised from one to five days old are still alive, healthy and happy.
We've enforced 'chicken jail' on one of our Hylines who was bullying our Australorpe and Light Sussex and things have quietened down in the run.
I look forward to asking questions and sharing photos and our (limited) experience with raising chickens.
Cheers
Phoenix10